"What brings hope is that once the priesthood is there, once the Lord has his hand blessing the people, it won't take long for good things to happen," Jorge Mena says about the Church in Cuba.

Since 2004, the National Day of the Cowboy has been celebrated on the fourth Saturday of July across North America. Each year, some of the nation’s cowboys and cowgirls are selected to be honored nationally for their unique way of preserving cowboy culture.

MR says: Originally dedicated in 2000, the Montreal Quebec Temple closed in 2014 for renovation but is now reopening to the public before its rededication on November 22.

Randal Quarles, the former home teaching companion to Harry Reid, could become the second LDS member to serve on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, according to the Deseret News.

Manual 1; Supplement from "The Eternal Blessings of Marriage," by Elder Richard G. Scott

Children from many nations watched in anticipation as Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve and his Excellency Olexander Motsyk, ambassador of Ukraine, continued a Washington tradition Nov. 28 by opening the annual Festival of Lights at the Washington D.C. Temple Visitors' Center. With the press of a button, they switched on 600,000 sparkling lights in trees and bushes that light the way to the center's concerts, performances and creche displays throughout December.As they have for 35 years, hosts J.W. Marriott Jr. and his wife, Donna, joined with the Church Office of Public and International Affairs under the direction of Ann Santini to welcome diplomats, their staffs, members of Congress, government officials and area business and religious leaders for the lighting ceremony. The event has become an opportunity to build good will between Church members and representatives of nations as they focus on common ideals of peace and love.

“In my view, conscience is a defining personal imperative that stirs deep in the soul of each person,” Elder Christofferson said.

With the forced evacuation of 88,000 in Alberta, Canada, entire swaths of land and forest reduced to ash, and one-fifth of the homes in Fort McMurray completely destroyed, the Alberta wildfire is one of the most devastating in Canada's history.

Although most toy companies don't make toys for adults, some grandmas are still young at heart. We recently sat down with LDS grandmas to see which top toys this Christmas season pass "The Mormon Grandma Test." Watch as these three grandmas try out the new Christmas toys in the hilarious video below!

With missionaries safe and accounted for after the devasting 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Ecuador, and missionaries surviving the bombings at the Belgium airport, here's another miraculous story of a future missionary escaping a close call.